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Mar 31, 2016Greisi rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I wanted to like this book so badly, really I did but for the life of me I just couldn't. Maybe my English class killed any enjoyment I would've gotten out of this book if I had read it under different circumstances but I couldn't stand it. I know I was supposed to care about the characters and their suffering but I just couldn't do it, I couldn't stand Raskolnikov and the hours that he spent agonizing over whether or not he had committed a crime and when he would be caught. The dialogue was three pages long, entire pages were only one sentence, so much unnecessary description. Everything was so dramatic, everyone was constantly yelling or exclaiming everything for no reason. To top it off, I was constantly getting nihilism and every other ideology of Dostoevsky's shoved down my throat.